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curl-6 on 08 January 2013
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zero129 said:
curl-6 said:
I don't really care either way about legalizing marijuana, but the oft-made claim that it's harmless is false.

Taking it raises your heart rate and affects its rhythm, increasing your risk of a heart attack.
It also negatively affects memory and learning, and can have a long term adverse impact on brain function.
It raises your risk of respiratory disease, and has been linked to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety. It's even been linked to an increased risk of testicular cancer.


Before anyone pro-pot posts a laundry list of the ill effects of alcohol and tobacco, I'm well aware of them, and I'm not arguing that marijuana should be illegal. I'm just pointing out that the "pot is harmless" slogan is a myth.

Ok so i wont post a list of what alchohal and tobacco and other legal drugs can do to you. I will ask you a question should them drugs be illagal too? and if not then shouldnt drugs that do "No More" harm then them legal drugs also be made legal instead of costing billions a year fighting something that cant be stopped. Putting kids in jail that who knows otherwise might of ended up getting a good job or something but now will never have the chance, putting money into the government instead of taking from it, freeing up them privet owned prisons so the government no longer has to pay them and waste money on them etc etc etc etc??. Have you even thought of the good legalizing something like this would do? cos i have thought of the bad things already and the good are far far ahard of the ba imo on this.

I can't see outlawing alcohol or tobacco being very effective or beneficial. From a personal point of view, I enjoy a drink now and then, nothing excessive, but I would never touch tobacco (it contributed to my Dad's death) or marijuana. (Last thing I should be doing is playing with even the chance of aggravating my mental state, I have OCD and anxiety) If others want to take that risk, I suppose it's their body, but honestly I don't care enough about it to have an impassioned for or against stance, it's just another thing that doesn't concern me.